PROPOSAL NO. 1 THE NAME CHANGE PROPOSAL
Background
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company incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities.
On May 12, 2022, we consummated our IPO of 25,875,000 units (the units), with each unit consisting of one Class A
ordinary share, par value $0.0001 per share, which we refer to (together with any shares issued in exchange thereof) as the public shares, and one-half of one redeemable warrant,
generating gross proceeds of $258.7 million.
Simultaneously with the closing of our IPO, we completed the private placement of
14,400,000 private placement warrants, at a purchase price of $1.00 per private placement warrant, to our Sponsor, and in connection with the underwriters exercise of their overallotment option, we consummated the sale of an additional
1,687,500 private placement warrants, generating gross proceeds to us of $16.1 million. The private placement warrants are identical to the warrants sold as part of the units in our IPO except that, so long as they are held by our Sponsor or
its permitted transferees, they (1) may be exercised for cash or on a cashless basis, (2) are not subject to being called for redemption (except in certain circumstances when the public warrants are called for redemption and a certain
price per public share threshold is met), (3) subject to certain limited exceptions, will be subject to transfer restrictions until 30 days following the consummation of the our initial business combination and (4) they (including the ordinary
shares issuable upon exercise thereof) are entitled to registration rights.
Of the gross proceeds received from our IPO and the sale of
the private placement warrants, $266,512,500 was deposited in the Trust Account.
On August 11, 2023, the Company held an
extraordinary general meeting of shareholders (the 2023 Meeting), at which the Companys shareholders approved proposals to extend the date by which the Company must complete its business combination from August 12, 2023 to
August 12, 2024, and to remove a redemption limitation that would prevent the Company from redeeming public shares to the extent that such redemption would cause the Companys net tangible assets to be less than US$5,000,001 In connection
with the extension approved at the 2023 Meeting, the Sponsor contributed (each such contribution, a Contribution) into the Companys Trust Account the lessor or (x) an aggregate of $100,000 or (y) $0.025 per share for each
Class A ordinary share included as a part of the units sold in the Companys initial public offering (including any shares issued in exchange thereof) that were not redeemed at the Extraordinary General Meeting for each monthly period
(commencing on August 12, 2023 and ending on the 12th day of each subsequent month, each, an extension period), or portion thereof, until August 12, 2024. In connection with the 2023 Meeting, the holders of 16,085,554 Class A ordinary
shares properly exercised their rights to redeem their shares for cash at a redemption price of approximately $10.74 per share, for an aggregate redemption amount of approximately $172,774,717. Following the redemption, the Company had a total of
9,789,446 shares of Class A ordinary shares outstanding. Since our IPO, our sole business activity has been identifying and evaluating suitable acquisition transaction candidates.
The proceeds held in the Trust Account may be invested by the trustee only in U.S. government securities, within the meaning set forth in
Section 2(a)(16) of the Investment Company Act, with a maturity of 185 days or less, or in money market funds meeting certain conditions under Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act which
invest only in direct U.S. government treasury obligations. As of July 26, 2024, funds held in the Trust Account totaled approximately $111.5 million, and were held in U.S. Treasury Bills with a maturity of 185 days or less and in money
market funds which invest in U.S. Treasury securities. However, to mitigate the risk of being viewed as operating as an unregistered investment company (including pursuant to the subjective test of
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